Hey there, i'm the creator of the mod showcased in the video and as someone whos watched your content for a while, it was quite a big shock and honor! thank you very much :)

we’re getting closer and closer to a full weapon tierlist

This is a big part of what I love about the 101 sorceries mod, the fact that a player with his own gripes and experience goes "fine, I'll do it myself", and creates multiple fun niches for each class instead of "glintstone pebble color #5".

I remember when the game first came out and I got the rotten crystal staff and immediately thought I could give people scarlet rot while shooting the crystal spells and the disappointment I had when I found out you couldnt. I literally summoned my friends as invaders and couldnt understand why the staff said it caused scarlett rot...until I started hitting them with the staff and thought just how STUPID that was. 🙄

About azurs staff: 20% cost, only lusats has the 50% extra cost. It also stacks with radagon icon to give max speed with any dex level

As someone who runs a split magic build, the Staff of Death is the only staff... you want. People are always like "There's no reason to increase your faith to make it stronger" completely forgetting that maybe somebody wants to cast both kinds of spells.

As an Int main, this is like Christmas to me. Thanks Rusty. I personally prefer the Regal Staff over Lusat's because FP management is super important as a mage. Int mages have no healing spells so balancing flasks is much more important especially in PVP. Great for Carian Slicer though

It took me until the Meteorite staff to finally understand that the baseline expectation for this ranking is "a character relying on sorceries for their overall gameplay, who will be steadily pumping their primary casting stat(s)." Then I stopped being surprised that the Demi-Human Queen's staff is so low.

Meteorite staff holds a special place in my heart for being the one that helped me actually get through stormveil castle and then the rest of the game till I got Lusats staff. Then hit the 80/80 cap for prince of death staff afterwards.

The all weapons' list is getting closer and closer

The Staff of the Guilty makes me sad because Reforged makes it a dual catalyst (IE able to cast both incantations AND sorceries), and that instantly gives it a potentially very cool and useful niche for hybrid builds that it just doesn't have in vanilla Elden Ring.

That transition with the fallingstar beast near the start was so clean

Rennala's staff will always be my personal favorite since being able to use both it and the Full Moon spell was a whole character arc for me. It was a good moment in the Haligtree, finally able to use both unaided by talismans and such. The whole early portions of this list may as well be a whole explanation as to why more exotic sorcery types need way more spells. Heck, why even the most varied sorcery classes still need more.

Me watching rusty do a full breakdown on all staves knowing full well I'm gonna continue spending every mage run with meteorite staff and rock sling until i can get +10 regal scepter

0:02 I'm betting at some point in development it was going to do rot buildup on spells, but when they showed it around the office someone got PTSD flashbacks of BatFog and forced them to change it.

Tbh the combo of prince of Death staff and Golden Order seal are the best option for maxime both incantations and spells in one playthrough, the amount of damage and versatility just makes you go through the game so easy, the supports incantations and offensive ones like the dragon cult ones and the attack power of the spells like comet, carian slicer, spellblades, you have all the elemental damage, buffs, short, mid and large range

Ever since Rusty covered DDLC's secrets he truly went insane

I love that staves here have like different specializations like a staff for each sect of magic I really wish those magic sects were fully developed

i appreciate you starting immediately.

Thank you for the Childhood Flashback with the Ratchet and Clank music :)

It's always a good day when rusty rusts us up with a ranking video

You know, I admit, I never once considered that Lucats staff turns the low FP mid levels spells into extremely powerful spells, and THAT is what makes it so useful. I know that seems obvious, but here we are.

15:54 I misheard that as "shart spiral" and almost spat out my drink.

Thank you for not doing a 3 minute intro that just describes the title of the video. More people need to be like you

The demihuman queen staff has the best spell scaling under 40 INT. It's the greatest staff for those that are doing a hybrid build that focuses on a different stat, or for lower level invasion builds.

1:15 I'm excited for the helmet tier list where you farm those imps on sewer pipes for an hour

I was literally just looking for this video from you a few days ago😂😂😂 I thought you forgot to rank all the staffs, I'm very happy to find you didn't 👍

Only just started binging your videos like a week ago and now I’m here as soon as one drops AS I’m sitting down to eat lunch. Marika has smiled upon me this day.

I played through an entire playthrough with just the Demihuman queen staff. I know it isn't good, but it looks nice.

Meteorite staff is the best staff until it isn't.

I used Lusat's staff for about 2 minutes before i realized the extra fp wasn't worth the extra damage. I get more damge out of my fp while using prince of deaths staff.

Just as a quick note, you also get a guaranteed Glintstone staff, the base one, just outside of Waypoint Ruins from a Noble Sorcerer there.

Pro tip for anyone going for a pure mage build, you can put a staff like Azur's in your left hand and another staff with better scaling ( I used the Carian Regal Septre) in your right hand to reap the benefit of extra fast cast time. Same thing with Staff of loss and Meteorite staff

so, to be totally honest, despite owning this game for some reason I’ve never actually played it, I mainly started watching your videos because I liked seeing all of the cool magic laid out, but I would just like to say that I really appreciate you using the ratchet and clank music, because I got the biggest dumbest smile on my face when I recognized stuff from some of my favorite teenaged games.

I can't wait for the all colours of grass tier list

I remember farming weapon drops when this game first came out, never even saw the magma staff so I figured it was some quest or pick up I’d missed. Good to know that magma sorcerers will need to cleave through resistant enemies for a staff that doesn’t make enough of a difference for them, wouldn’t want any fun for non-generic sorcery

Another day closer to raking all Elden ring weapons Also when NPCs as babysitters tier list

This is a super good tier list, just remember that all the school specific staves can be offhanded for a buff to said school they increase, so basically even though some of the staves are ass they are still useful

Rusty I’m still waiting for that 40+ hour elden ranking video of EVERYTHING

stuff like showing the scaling of other staffs compared to the demi human without it feeling like im comparing excel sheets at work is very much appreciated, you've always had such a strength at fast info that i can retain, and stuff like that only makes it better. Great stuff

I’m still waiting for Rusty to mention the Zweihander (my personal favorite) in a colossal weapons rank list.

What Rusty didn't explicitly say about the Prince of Death staff is that at 80 int and faith, it outscales not just every normal staff, but also Lusat's staff with it's 50% magic cost. At NG+2 or whatever, this is objectively the best main staff just like the Golden Order seal is objectively the best seal (and better yet, they both belong to the same build). You'll want to off-hand an appropriate magic school staff (or Azur's staff), but this staff has the highest sorcery scaling in the game in the ultra endgame by a lot. Also, I believe Azur's staff is not a 50% cost penalty as you say in the video, but a 20% (unlike Lusat's, which _is_ 50%). Also, it applies even in the off-hand, for some reason, so it's well-suited as your off-hand staff in a build where you're using a large variety of spells and don't care to constantly swap between the appropriate buff staffs. It overrides and outperforms (or well, both give you virtual dexterity and Azur's caps it out) the casting speed talisman too, so it effectively frees up a talisman slot.

Can't wait for the bows tier list!! Very excited

the "Whatever, Lets just do it" is GOLD

Just straight in 😂 Never change Rusty!

Been using Prince of Death in my higher NG+ runs and it feels great. 70 int and faith is bonkers

Absolutely straight to the point. No intro. Just straight to the video

Hell yea Rusty, I hear that R&C Veldin theme still in there. Love that song

The dragon communion seal better be the number one seal when you’ll eventually rank them.

i used the prince of death staff on my first play. But my build was int/faith because i did my play through with night and flame sword, and work out pretty good.

Very few youtubers nowadays can pull off the zero punctuation writing style but you do it flawlessly. I feel like these ranking videos would get pretty old otherwise

Great just the video i needed, thanks.

I'm gonna say it right now, the Gelmir Staff is hella underrated. It might underperform at 80/80 but it's the best staff at 30/30 and 45/45 which are the soft and hardcaps for every hybrid seal and staff in the game aside from Prince of Death's. At 45/45 it might lose to 80 int pure int staffs but not so much if you consider having access to Golden Vow and Howl of Shabriri or even just Flame Grant Me Strength to boost lava sorceries.

The main use case of the Glintstone staff is that it's a guaranteed drop from a lone wandering noble close to Sellen, so even if you didn't start with a staff, getting one in limgrave is trivial unlike the situation for Sacred Seals.

THANK YOU FOR USING THE CORRECT PLURAL ❤

Every video we inch a little bit closer to the inevitable all weapon tierlist

You should tell people they can run backwards at the start of Radahn's fight to get hum into melee phase, everybody loves hearing that, too.

I can’t be the only one that just used the meteorite staff the entire game, right?

I just love your videos!

I've finished this game twice (and I do deep exploration in each playthrough), and I only just realized there are such things as the Crystal Staff and Carian Glintblade Staff

Staff of loss is great for spamming one of the highest dps spells in the game. Don't let its lack of flexibility fool you.

Another perfect video, as always. Rusty has truly honed his craft to such a fine degree, nothing can bring it down.

Perfect timing, I was just starting my first sorcery playthrough.

This might be your best intro yet

After using the staff of the guilty in pvp for a while, I'd personally give it points for letting faith pures shake up their casting rotation wildly. Going from incantations to sorceries so suddenly always seems to throw people off, and you don't even have to invest in INT to get usable damage out of it.

You know, I dare say that Rusty's Elden Ring content is just able to only one still being posted that doesn't feel stale at this point. It always seems fresh even though he is covering content that has been covered many times before. I guess it's cause of the technical knowledge he approaches it with, and his witty commentary to go with it. Either way, it's awesome and makes me laugh my ass off. Keep it up!

Oh hell yeah I've been waiting for this

Been waiting for this cuz I just started my mage build. Thank you sir

Nice to know the 2 staves I've been using didn't even break the top 10...😢

i think a lot of build options in this game suffer from being mostly roleplay flavor options in a game where roleplaying too hard immediately nets you a challenge run. maybe i would want to use the digger staff with a medium int + high strength build if i'm roleplaying as a menial laborer that decided to start waving around a fallingstar beast's jaw but still uses their old spells, be it out of habit and/or just to fuck with the highborn, but i'm not gonna be using it too much anyway because my menial-laborer-turned-warrior is getting proverbially owned by everything in the endgame for the crime of shitting around and will quickly unlearn that habit and/or swallow their pride. unless i start playing good, of course. but i don't want to.

Somebody back on the Spells Ranked video had their wish granted!

The fact that you started the list in the first five seconds, you earned a like and subscribe right there.

It's coming, boys. All weapons ranked.

I always go an arcane hybrid as int just so I can use Albinauric staff with all the sweet grey/white/blue int weapons, without the need to be carian elegance. Well, that's the most important reason, anyway. :D

Loved this as I'm feeling a bit lost after hitting 65 Int on my Astrologer build having used the meteor staff. One question though Rusty - whats the coat/hood you had on throughout this vid? Love the aesthetic!

damn that vitriol at the beginning, with some of it even being directed at Prince of Death Staff (the one I use because it has the highest scaling at max int/faith)... what a mood

I feel like the demi human staff should be higher up, while yes it is mostly an early game/low int staff. with builds that are part int part something like dex they the demi human staff outcompetes other staffs with at 40 int and at around +16. I do agree that its a bit resource hungry cause it needs to those upgrades to be any good but in my run i used moonveil, glintstone kris and wing of astel wich are all somber weapons so i could put all my normal ones into that staff

The gelmir staff isn’t that bad at lower int and faith. At 50/50 it has a 285 sorcery scaling while prince of death staff has a 286. At any lower levels of int and faith it outperforms the death staff. It has some use as an int/faith build at lower levels.

Patiently waiting for the grass ranking video

A new Rusty video about the weapon I use, uploaded on my birthday?? How nifty 😂

The bare minimum from needed to make the rotten staff something to ever be considered is letting us put spinning weapon on it

I have no idea what a ‘stave’ is but I trust Rusty’s judgement here. Lovely job as always

Everybody talking about the full weapons list. I’m ready for the full BOSS list

i love this video, thank you for making it

Since he forgot to say it for whatever reason. DID YOU KNOW fire damage resets frostbite. Edit: I prejacked my comment, idk what I was thinking of course he would remember to say that

It's so bizarre that Elden Ring doesn't have any kind of multi-school or weapon catalysts, it's basically the perfect game for hybrid builds and gives next to nothing to them

Ahh, I’ve been waiting for this.

Editor back at it again with the ratchet and clank background music. If you know you know

It’s almost time for a tierlist tierlist.

What is the character wearing here? Some modded outfit?

A suggestion on how to convey the damage bonus for certain schools of magic, for instance, you can say that at 80 int, the Carian Regal Scepter has 410 sorcery scaling for full-moon sorceries, which only puts it 3 behind Lusat's, without a cost increase. Meteorite Staff has 353.6 Sorcery Scaling for Gravity spells, which actually makes it the 6th strongest staff for such spells. Or yes, you can off-hand it. But just a better way to explain the value of the damage buffs.

OG's have long been waiting for this one 🙏

For lists like these you could consider reverser order, we know lusats in number 1 but who coulf guess what the worst is and just how you'll berate it, could be more exciting

dude where do i get that coat

Can you please make a sorcerer playthourgh guide where you go over what spells, staffs and armor you should use during the different parts of the game

I have an exam tomorrow but it’s more important that I know what Rusty’s S tier Staff is

So, from what I understand. At 80 INT. Lusat's Staff isn't much more damaging than Rennala's Staff. And that 50% FP increase DOES start adding up.... The only time overall that Lusat's Staff is truly worth it, is if you drink the infinite FP Physic. And then use something like Azur's Comet, or some other super high FP costing spell. Or, maybe in PvP if you're running some kind of oneshot build. (I dunno, I don't play PvP enough to care about it.)

As time goes on, the full weapon ranking is becoming less and less of a joke and more and more of a possibility, isn't it?

The veldin soundtrack from R&C was unexpected but very welcome

If you want to put off the full weapon tier list, I would love to see a remembrance rewards ranking idk just an idea